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So, if I wanted to push the drums 'back' I would add a little reverb to just the drum track.



Surely that would fatten the sound and bring it more forward, Gary? I could be quite wrong but what I do is lower the volume on the drums and treat the various track volumes as if looking vertically from the top of the VU meter down. I.E. the lower the volume, the further back the instrument is. It works for me.

Anyway...

Jan, I think you are approaching this from the wrong angle. There is more than one way to skin a rabbit but I think you are making things complicated for yourself. Let me explain, unless you are going for the 'Wall of Sound' effect with every instrument possible, with 48 tracks you have more than enough room to play with for the majority (maybe 90%) of possible combinations, excluding orchestral (in which case Garritan would probably be a better programme for your purposes). Simply record each instrument to its own track and, when you have recorded all, THEN do your mixing and mastering and final rendering, not before. It sounds to me like you are used to the old fashioned method of 'bouncing' from the analogue days of maybe a 4 track recorder? This software is digital and doesn't need that kind of work usually. NOI.

As to whether the TASCAM I suggested would enable you to mix down - yes, in all probability but it just would not be worth the hassle. The TASCAM is a great Audio/MIDI interface for both input and output and it is an external soundcard but you should find that the internal sound card is more than adequate for the internal operations onboard of your computer. I do everything very simply, inside but use the TASCAM interface for input when recording and for playback.

Hope that helps

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